Ansel Elgort Quotes

I think my voice would be great as a protestor but also it would be, and has been, very powerful for charity.

I'm starting to get a following on Twitter. That's a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want.

I'd like to do something that hits close to home.

We live in a bubble of progression, and over the last eight years [of Barack Obama], we've been a country of progression.

I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.

I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.

I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. I want to score movies. I could be an actor first, but I don't only want to be an actor.

I talked to Shailene Woodley the next day [after arrest]. She was fine, and she was very happy. She knew that it brought attention to a cause that she cared very much about. She was in high spirits and knew that was a possibility when she was protesting. The people who arrested her, if they were trying to prove a point of not to protest, they only helped the cause.

When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.

If you don't know my name and you don't know what movie I'm from, don't come ask for a picture while I'm trying to eat chipotle

I was never not in a show from ages 11 until 18. It was a great creative atmosphere but also a professional kind of atmosphere. When I finally went into the professional world, I felt ready. I was prepared for work.

I'm trying to have no regrets. I'm starting to learn about myself and how to live. As an actor, part of the job is accepting your life and learning how to roll with it. I want to live a life where I don't regret any decisions, and if I do, I learn from them.

Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.

Fault is a beautiful, honorable love story that I hope I'll get to experience in my own lifetime. It makes you grateful for any love you have in your life.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art-like theater.

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.

I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.

Young people are this country [America], and we need to speak out.

As America, we aren't the country that we should be with Donald Trump as president.

Donald Trump as a figurehead is the opposite of that - he's regression, he's taking a step backward.

Why go around dating random girls and having terrible sex when you can be with someone you really like?

I feel, for the first time, ashamed to be an American because we elected [Donald Trump].

I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.

I got starstruck not by someone who is famous, but by someone who's famous in the miniature painting community. When I was a kid, I used to paint miniatures. There were famous people in the miniature community from forums online. I went to some big event and I saw them in real life and I was so starstruck.

I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

I always did workshops. I would be at theater camp, doing shows, or after-school programs.

I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.

My dad would throw me in the picture if they needed an extra. From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.

Anyone would be able to be played by someone like him [Donald Trump], that's what he did, he played people.

Success is being artistically fulfilled and happy. You can't control how people see your movie or how much money it makes...and the same thing with music. When I'm writing a song or I'm in the studio, those memories, that's epic.

As much as politicians, any politicians, Democrat or Republican, are saying they're trying to help the schools, it's hard because our country is in debt. I would like to do something for the inner-city schools because that's our future, and education is very important in helping our country continue to progress and not regress.

I'm a big fan of Shake Shack.

I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good.

I think what I really want to do [is] do something charitable.

We need to also act out, and anything that [Donald] Trump does, anything he's trying to do that we don't agree with or anything this country is doing in general that we don't agree with, we need to protest, we need to make our voices heard. And that has to go beyond Twitter - for me as well.

I've lived in a bubble my whole life. I never thought someone with those kind of views, who came across to me so ignorant every time he speaks, could ever be elected.